She was thrilling with unexpressed love for the mother she had never seen, and this written speech from the grave seemed to give more tangibility to her having ever existed, than did the vision of her.

And the performances of Pavel Liska and Zuzana Bydzovska, often silent but full of unexpressed, tumultuous emotions, help bolster the story even when it tips into obviousness, or in the case of two separate cow-birthing sequences, somewhat ungainly symbolism.